RangerJoe
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake Then you have the local health departments. Even in good times, you tend not to attract the brightest bulbs to county health departments but they seemed DELIBERATELY stupid. When they still offered the PRETENSE of containment they would refuse all testing even whole families with high fevers and travel to Pakistan, for eg. Why would you not test? It's the ABSOLUTE ESSENTIAL F****** KEY to isolation and containment. I now realize they had already given up on containment because they lacked adequate and timely testing and had now switched over to "flattening the curve" but didn't have the f****** stones to admit it. I had it hear it from f******* Governor Newsom who publicly complained there were only 500 kits in all of California. He stood there with his fabulously hair-sprayed helmet head and spilled the beans before somebody got to him and told him to shut up On Thursday, the UK prime minister's briefing suggested that there are 10 times as many COVID-19 cases in the UK than have been discovered. I am genuinely surprised by the change in response from the government compared to other issues recently. Particularly... - Seemingly being honest - Deferring to experts - Not necessarily following what other countries are doing That's not to say it's great here. Just much more adult than I expected. Ten years of underfunding the NHS won't help. BBC news just announced that UK deaths from this bug doubled in one day! I don't know how that could be other than post-mortem testing revealing cases that were not previously diagnosed. (Or maybe lack of access to respirators?). Scary stuff no matter how it came about. When someone states that it doubled in one day and does not provide numbers, that is difficult to use. From 1 to 2 is doubling but so is 1,000 to 2,000. There is a big difference when you look at those numbers. Also, what are the co-morbidity factors. Here is an excellent article on the Flu in Canada from 2012: Flu deaths reality check Credibility of flu models disputed https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/flu-deaths-reality-check-1.1127442
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